Hybrid Sweet Corn has Everything 

It takes a lot of ab to properly detassel 600 acres of hybrid seed corn. This group of over oe men and women, fae and girls, 
covered our fields daily, rain or shine during the period that tassels were appearing. It is necessary to remove these tassels from the seed 
plants before any pollen is shed. These people were real soldiers in the war of production. i ; 
No one need worry about the future of America with young people like 
hot sunshine and rain that often soaked them from head to foot. 
these in the front line of food production. 
They had a job to do and did it in spite of 
EARLY HYBRID YELLOW SWEET CORN 
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Plant after danger of frost, either in hills 30 to 36 
inches apart and 2 to 3 seeds per hill or in rows 30 to 
36 inches apart and 12 to 15 inches apart in the row. 
Golden Cross is a very vigorous grower and seems to 
do better in rows than hills. 
SENECA DAWN: (See illustration on front cover.) 65 
days. 150 kernels per oz. A large eared extra early 
yellow hybrid developed by our breeding department 
and introduced by us this year for the first time. 
Stalk 4% to 5 ft., strong, upright. Ears well up 
from the ground, 6% inches long, 12 to 14 rows, 
medium yellow, fair quality kernels on large cob. 
Heavy husk gives good coverage to end of ear. 
We believe commercial growers will find Seneca 
Dawn a money maker. Pkt. 15 cts.; % lb. 35 cts.; 
Ib. 65 cts.; 2 Ibs. $1.20; 6 Ibs. $3.00. 
* SENECA ‘‘60’’: 62 days, 150 kernels per oz. This 
new hybrid is very prolific usually producing two 
and many times three ears per stalk. The stalk is 
4 to 4% feet tall. Ears 6 inches long, slender, 8 to 
10 rowed. Kernels yellow, medium wide and fair 
quality. The earliest of all hybrids. Not resistant 
to) wilt.) Pkt. 10\cts: 3340 1bs 30%cts7- 1b. 40) cts: 
2 Ibs. 75 cts.; 6 Ibs. $2.10; 12 lbs. $4.10; 100 lbs. 
$31.35. 
SENECA 60 X C13: 65 days, 150 kernels per oz. A 
new wilt resistant hybrid for those sections where 
bacterial wilt is prevalent. The 4% to 5 foot stalk 
is a vigorous grower. Ears 6% inches long, 10 to 14 
rows of yellow kernels of fair quality. A larger ear 
than Seneca 60 and only a few days later. Pkt. 10 
cts.; % lb. 30 cts.; lb. 55 cts.; 2 Ibs. 90 cts.; 6 lbs. 
$2.40; 12 lbs. $4.55; 100 lbs. $35.00. 
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“Your Golden Cross sweet corn is still ‘tops’.’’ 
October 22, 1942 Jesse M. Huffington, Sec’y, 
Penna. Vegetable Growers Ass’n, 
State College, Penn. 
%*xSENECA GOLDEN: 72 days, 220 kernels per oz. 
Stalks 5% feet tall and produce two marketable ears 
on practically every stalk. Ears nearly as large as 
Golden Cross and well filled clear to the tip. Kernels 
rich golden yellow and if harvested when ready are 
of excellent quality. Should not be used in the South 
where bacterial wilt is serious. Pkt. 10 cts.; 1% lb. 
30 cts.; lb. 55 cts.; 2 lbs. 90 cts.; 6 lbs. $2.40; 12 
Ibs. $4.55; 100 lbs. $35.00. 
CARMELCROSS: 75 days. 220 kernels per oz. A 
second early yellow hybrid developed by the Con- 
necticut Experiment Station for market and home 
garden. Stalk vigorous, 5% ft. Ears 7 inches in 
length, slightly tapering. 12 to 14 rows, medium 
yellow color, quality good. Pkt. 10 cts.; % lb. 30 
cts.; lb. 55 cts.; 2 Ibs. 90 cts.; 6 lbs. $2.40; 12 lbs. 
$4.55; 100 lbs. $35.00. 
DO NOT SAVE HYBRID 
CORN FOR SEED 
It is always a temptation to save hybrid corn for 
seed. The ears are so uniform and many times the 
kernels look better than the seed you planted. Hybrid 
corn is a controlled cross between two or more inbreds. 
If you save seed from the crop and plant it the result 
will be a tendency to revert to the inbreds which are 
often of different seasons of maturity and unlike in 
growth. You will not get a crop like the seed you 
planted. It will lack uniformity, yield and be a dis- 
appointment to you. 
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“Last summer we bought the best sweet corn we ever ate from 
a stand on the west side of Seneca Lake. The man that runs it 
told us he bought the seed from you and that you had the 60, 70 
and 80 day planting corn.’ 
Frank E. Finch, 
June 1, 1942 
Clyde, N. Y. 
